Having a special interest is not exclusive to autistics, but it does get pathologized - as you’re doing here - which leads to the abusive “cures” a lot of us had to go thorugh as kids. Half of what got Chris-chan harassed and what built up Kiwifarms was their special interest in Sonic, and it’s hard to imagine that shit would have ever gotten so bad if people had simply left her the fuck alone. Whether someone is diagnosed or not, that someone might get shit for passing as autistic is a problem for autistics, I’m not going back to us being used as shorthand for people with bad politics.

Again, you’re not really defining what you’re meaning by “unhealthy” here, which comes across as simply moralizing. What makes what you’re arguing any different from a chud complaining about “removed” (edit: the d-word they call everything they don’t like)? You’re not even actually complaining about these people actually, materially having worse lives for really liking a specific movie or game or whatever. And you can’t even draw useful conclusions about people from it, because you’re stuck assuming I’m into Marvel or whatever when my special interest is specifically leftist politics. I don’t watch movies or play many games, and those I do play I’m overtly critical of and am varied in my tastes like a lot of NT’s - but because I am in solidarity with people who have been nearly driven to suicide over mockery for their special interest, I’m going to defend their dignity against the people who supposedly are their comrades.

Haven’t even fully unpacked all he gender roles you’re putting into this either - you very much are specifying “grown men” here to talk about a supposed failure to become a man, which intersects with the autistic masculine experience in a ton of fucked up ways. It’s embarassing and bad for a man to like “childish” things, but I guess it’s less cringe for women because it’s more OK for them to act “childish?” Are autistic men not men?

I need you to actually point to a materially bad thing, and actually connect it to whatever point you’re trying to make, 'cause otherwise it seems like you’re trying to take a comedy bit from a podcast this website has historically criticized for having dogshit takes and present it as serious politics without even having to take the effort to criticize the obvious shit like cops being presented as heroic figures or fans excusing Rowling’s transphobia. There are actual criticisms of media, like superhero movies becoming this status-quo enforcing thing that has to generate infinite sequels because that is easier for hte purposes of extracting money out of people, that aren’t about moralizing the workers that enjoy it for enjoying it.